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You know the string of symbols that come out of a cartoon character’s mouth every time they swear?
Apparently it’s called a Grawlix.
Mort Walker (the Beetle Bailey cartoonist) coined the term around 1964, and though the Oxford English Dictionary doesn’t officially recognize it as a word, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t start using it every chance you get.
#@&%?$!
[Via: Hoefler & Frere-Jones]
Fireworks might be outlawed in most fire-prone places, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun this Fourth of July weekend by shooting things into the sky.
Make has put together a fantastic set of instructions for creating your very own Soda Bottle Rocket, and before you know it, you’ll be shooting rockets into the night sky like the big boys.
[Via: Make: Blog]
Jowling (AKA the Slap n’ Flap) is a photography technique where the subject completely relaxes their facial muscles and then shakes their head side to side as fast as they can.
The end result is a funny/silly picture that gives anyone’s face cartoon like proportions, and is perfect for capturing those candid moments.
Just something to keep in mind during your next family portraits…
[Via: Digital Photography School]
Call me an online gaming Newbie, but the concept of an Achievement Farming Server was news to me.
For those of you in the same boat, let me explain: In certain games like Team Fortress 2, items and weapons are unlocked only after a player achieves a certain number of achievements (milestones that mark goals or difficult tasks within the game). For those that can’t just wait to play through the game and earn the achievements like a normal player, Achievement Servers get set up with the express purpose of unlocking certain achievements for everyone playing.
Thus, though there might be two different teams playing, everyone is basically on the same team, and working together to earn achievements.
Need to kill 10 guys in 30 seconds?
Though this might be a tough task on a regular server, it’s easy on an Achievement Server when you have 10 volunteers join one team and then just stand still in a single spot while players on the opposing team take turns slaughtering the 10 opponents in one fell swoop like some sort of communal firing squad. Then, once everyone from one team unlocks that particular achievement, the roles are reversed, and it’s the next team’s turn.
Seem a little…unfair?
I thought so too, but apparently these types of servers are pretty common for games like TF2, as players are anxious to ‘earn’ their new toys and try them out.
Click the link to follow one man as he journeys through an Achievement Server for the first time, and witnesses the power, and the shame, of Achievement Servers firsthand.
[Rock, Paper, Shotgun - Pyro Maniacs: Achieving Nothing In TF2]
Given the chance, what would a pilot say about our current airline/airport ‘situation’?
Probably something like:
Pilot Patrick Smith dropped that and other bits of knowledge upon Reader’s Digest readers, and it’s actually an interesting read for anyone that wonders what’s going on in the heads of the guys on the other side of the locked cockpit door.
(My other favorite gem: “Before we take off, I would like to apologize on behalf of this and every airline for the hassle you just endured at the security checkpoint. As is patently obvious to any reasonable person, the humiliating shoe removals, liquids ban, and pointy-object confiscations do little to make us safer.”)
[Reader's Digest - Airplane Pilot Speaks Out On Flight Delays]
[Photo Via: Haseo]
When The Sopranos ended abruptly in extended darkness, many fans felt slighted by the lack of…well, anything.
However, the “Master of Sopranos” has published what he’s calling the definitive explanation of “The End”, and if there’s more to it than what he manages to drag out of those few precious seconds, then I don’t think I want to know.
Read through for a very exhaustive explanation of what one fan thinks David Chase’s message was, or read the spoiler below if you’d rather not wade through text to get to the good stuff.
(Spoiler: Tony got shot in the head in Holsten’s, and the blackness was Tony’s point of view shot.)
[Master Of Sopranos - The Sopranos: Definitive Explanation of "The End"]
[Via: Kottke]
This weekend, grab your camera (or your friend’s camera), set the timer, and toss it in the air for a new style of photography called Camera Tossing.
The results are often a beautiful art piece that is less about documenting a moment, and more about creating an emotional picture that is filled with color and motion.
Check out COLOURlover’s article on Camera Tossing for a brief history of the technique, and some fantastic examples that should give you more than enough inspiration to get going.
[COLOURlovers - The Colorful Art Of Camera Tossing]
[Photo Via: Daddy0h]
The new Fahrenheit coaster at Hershey Park now features the steepest drop of any coaster in the US.
How steep?
Try 97 degrees. (For those of you wondering: Yes, that is PAST vertical.)
The coaster, which features a 121 foot drop, a 107 foot inverted loop, two inverted corkscrew rolls, a Cobra element, an Airborne inverted S roll, two hills called Airtime hill, and two High-speed/banked curves, reaches a maximum speed of 58 mph, and takes 12 riders on an 85 second ride of their life.
Check out Popular Mechanics for a behind the scenes look at how the coaster was made, and hold on to your lunch if you’re going to watch the video.
I love summertime movies, but with ticket prices quickly approaching a Jackson, and popcorn prices making you rethink the switch to ethanol, it’s quickly becoming harder and harder to justify the cost.
However, with a bit of planning and some smart savings, Consumerist can show you nine different ways to save at the movies.
From movie ticket coupons and drive-in revivals to bulk ticket purchases and reward programs, it’s a helpful and easy to use guide to saving a few bucks.
Brian Brushwood’s Scam School is a short-format series of online videos that gives you an inside tour of bar tricks, street cons, and scams.
Each episode teaches you a usable bar trick, street con, or scam that you can pull on your friends, and you’ll be entertaining them in no time with these easy to learn tricks.
In the pilot episode, Brian teaches you how to make smoke from out of thin air:
